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Carnivale 21 February 2011

Carnival season kicks off in Venice, Nice and Viareggio:
A float depicting US President Barack Obama with his hat topped off by a man dressed as Osama Bin Laden, and entitled Barack-Adabra and the Great Circus of the Fleas, is seen at the Carnival parade in Viareggio, Italy [AP]

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hmmm perhaps some ‘barrier cream’ is in order for those boyos ….to keep their urine from eating their flesh…might I suggest A & D barrier cream? ….oh and let me go call up the A & D folks to get my BIG PHARMA KICKBACK … fuck em all but 6, shove your kickback up your fuckin ass!

Earlier they said that Egypt had drawn back their mil from the border and had two field hospitals set up…

and now:

BREAKING: The Egyptian Army announces that Libyan-Egyptian borders are open fully!

Posted on February 22, 2011 by admin

Just now, the Egyptian army has announced that the Libyan-Egyptian borders are open fully! We hope that this will now allow for journalists and hospital supplies to filter through and help our Libyan brothers and sisters

ahhhh …but nonetheless, ..obombster and mickey ….are still likely walled off, in their own “snow” drift ….. don’t even want to know who else accompanies [sic (and sick)] them in that snowed in fortress,…. the image of shrub and condi, in leather, in the same room (let alone a foursome or more (poppy and babs, not quite up to the activity ..voyeuring in the corner …. let alone BIll and Hill, et al …and all the “MUST BE READ TO BE RELEVANT BLAWWWGHERS ……..et al …..), still creeps me out ………

This is such a DC insider insipid analysis. Of course the DNC didn’t lead this, it was a protest.

This DC insider perspective is not the shared perspective with the rest of the US who are clearly not into the two party faux bipartisan neatly constructed box. As for DC progressives, I agree with Cornel West, Obama has domesticated them. But I think that you might be surprised at the absolute contempt everyday people (outside of the beltway) have for this beltway bullsh**. The outrage is real. It is spontaneous and if the DNC disappeared, it wouldn’t matter.

One of the pieces I read at CPunch, think it was a new one this am, said there is no commentary, no interest in Obama nor any other national leader at the WI protests. NO signs asking “Where is Foundling” (snicker).

Randi Weingarten, who flew in and out, apparently urged the locals to make any and all concessions. Exactly what DeMoro nd the nurses were told here 6+ years ago. I suspect by Stern and whoever else.

KABUL – To the shock of President Hamid Karzai’s aides, Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties, according to two participants at the meeting.

The exact language Petraeus used in the closed-door session is not known, and neither is the precise message he meant to convey. But his remarks about the deadly U.S. military operation in Konar province were deemed deeply offensive by some in the room. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.

They said Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, dismissed allegations by Karzai’s office and the provincial governor that civilians were killed and said residents had invented stories, or even injured their children, to pin the blame on U.S. forces and force an end to the operation.

“I was dizzy. My head was spinning,” said one participant, referring to Petraeus’s remarks. “This was shocking. Would any father do this to his children? This is really absurd.”

Anti-war protesters interrupted Kerry numerous times Saturday as he met with constituents. Kerry apologized to a woman who said he called her a Neanderthal for not believing in global warming. The Democratic Party’s 2004 presidential candidate said he was referring generally to those who do not believe in global warming.

Resident Steve Ganzel of Northampton criticized Kerry for failing to stem credit-default swaps, which insure against default of securities tied to mortgages and were blamed for partly causing the collapse of large banks. Kerry said he tried unsuccessfully to gather support for measures that would have imposed regulations.

He criticized House Republicans for proposed budget cuts of $60 billion.

Let alone contract-killer Davis: a minor distinction, he was mil before, but now in quite the delicious pickle, straight up charged with murder in Pakistan. With US Intel and the Pols going out of their way now to distance themselves from his inadvertant Blackwater ass. Or something like that. I wonder if he’s prepared to die for “plausible reliability”. I wonder if he has considered the unlikelihood of the ISI sheltering him now. Or the piss poor probability – and here’s a real Hero Sandwich – > of some low profit margin rescue operation even being thought about now by his buddies given the seller’s market for mercenary services in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

Al Jazeera, live on the web, no problem whatsoever in telling it like it is wrt Obama “no where to be seen today” and Hillary “too little too late”

Had a clip from former UK FM Owen saying the UN Security Council should be called into emergency session “immediately, tonight” and Impose a no fly zone over Libya immediately. This was in a piece noting the international community – and the U.S. – clearly has the ability to enforce such a resolution given military resources based in Italy.

Ah yes our military bases:
Endorsed by Obama as a safeguard for peace…

“And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States.”

raises the essential question of the how US military medicine is used as a force multiplier.
Has two medics featured that are… just lost IMO.

And footage of an attempted resuscitation of an Afghan National army KIA… yet no reason for the US Mil heroic measures dance: Anyone with medical training, let alone a field medic who watches it would know the guy had already bled out , was cleaned up and thoroughly field dressed for the footage to proceed from the landing zone.

A whole lot of ” This job, Our Job..” ETC.
The ethical questions raised by the reporter met with little but dismay and recital that US Military medicine is “there for the Afghans, too”… 🙄

It is so not going to go well when these vets come home. If they ever do..

[N]ow the scene is set for more bloodshed by an increasingly isolated regime as the people become more emboldened to continue their demand that was raised from the beginning of the revolution; the downfall of the Al Khalifa hereditary dictatorship.

They have not been deterred by the threats coming from the Saudi dictators whose fate hangs in the balance after decades of dictatorship and suppression. These developments have now hardened the resolve of Bahrainis. The Al Wefaq society announced their withdrawal from the Al Khalifa shura council and calls are being made to try the ruler and his clique for genocide and war crimes. It is a history which is now unfolding in Bahrain. The time for real change has come and the days of the Al Khalifa are numbered.

The younger Gadhafi is Libya’s national security adviser — and if not the successor to his father’s power, then at least the inheritor of a sartorial legacy.

SECRETARY CLINTON: I am very pleased to welcome Minister Gadhafi here to the State Department. We deeply value the relationship between the United States and Libya. We have many opportunities to deepen and broaden our cooperation. And I’m very much looking forward to building on this relationship. So, Mr. Minister, welcome so much here.

David Cameron faced charges of hypocrisy last night after he arrived for a tour of the Gulf with some senior figures from the defence industry.

His long-planned visit was originally to bang the drum for British business in export markets, but has become dominated by the turmoil in the Middle East. After leaving Britain early, Mr Cameron became the first world leader to visit Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled. The Prime Minister is also preparing, in a speech to the Kuwaiti parliament today, to urge governments across the region to respond to calls for reform.

Despite the change in his agenda, Mr Cameron is still taking a large delegation from business and industry, including eight representatives of defence firms attempting to secure contracts in the Gulf states. Among them are: Ian King, chief executive of BAE Systems; Alastair Bisset, group international director at QinetiQ; and Rob Watson, regional director of Rolls-Royce.

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Yet Mr Cameron was forced to defend the inclusion of defence industry representatives in the travelling party, arguing that it was “very much in Britain’s interests” that the UK continued to promote defence relationships with countries in the region.

He said: “Britain has a range of strong defence relationships with countries in the region. I seem to remember we spent a lot of effort and indeed life in defending and helping to defend Kuwait.

“So the idea that Britain should not have defence relationships with some of these countries I don’t understand. It is quite right that we do.

“We have some of the toughest rules on export licences and exports of arms anywhere in the world. Everything has to meet those rules.”

An increasingly desperate Colonel Muammer Gaddafi was clinging to power with brutal force on Tuesday after protests against his regime hit Tripoli, Libya’s capital, and opposition groups consolidated their control of the eastern regions.

He’s still goin on on the tube BTW, he was talking of opposition bombs falling on the Oil Fields.
NOW he’s reciting a list of crimes that will be met with the death penalty and stops himself to say he will not blame the young people tho. And resuming the de4ath Penalty litany now..Back to the rats and cats theme now…

we don’t get much from the ME. Other than rigging the oil markets (and I don’t care anymore, frankly, so many years of it – – and boom and bust)…. we get most from the Dutch, from Canada, from Venezuela, Mexico, etc.

JAPAN will be suffering if Libya shuts down the oil, but not us so much.

[A]merica’s and the President’s reputations take another beating as a result of the handling of this bloody incident. Not only did the US dispatch to Islamabad members of Congress, including the Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to press for Davis’s release, threatening the withholding of aid to Pakistan (our ostensible ally in the Afghanistan War!). It provided a patently false document to the Pakistani foreign office claiming Davis to be an employee of the US Embassy in Islamabad (which would have meant he’d have immunity from arrest and detention), when he was actually working out of the Lahore Consulate, where he would not be entitled to any immunity for his actions). It also tried to exchange his regular passport for a diplomatic one a day after his arrest, again retroactively trying to get him immunity from prosecution for his murderous acts.

Furthermore, the US government, according to the Guardian, induced major US news organizations to hide what they knew about Davis’s real role from the American public. The paper reported that several US news organizations had also learned on their own that Davis is a spy, but then voluntarily withheld the information from the American public “at the request of the Obama administration,” which preferred to stick to the fictional story line that Pakistan is holding an American “diplomat” in “violation of the Vienna Convention” on diplomatic immunity. ….

AND Lindorff posts he may still be active SF, more than anything else.

My main reasoning for thinking Davis is in Special Forces is that CIA agents don’t typically advertise themselves as being in the “security” business. Yet Davis was carrying cards when he was arrested after slaughtering two Pakistanis that identified him as an employee of Hyperion Protective Services, LLC. That kind of thing may well by what a secret Special Forces commando might do, but not a CIA agent.

Furthermore, the kind of killing that Davis was involved in–the daylight execution on a crowded street of two young men on motorcycles, and the equipment police found in his car, which included multiple semi-automatic pistols and high-capacity clips, a telescope, a forehead-mounted infra-red flashlight, multiple cell-phones, a cell-phone locater, clippers, military knives, makeup and masks and a camera filled with photos of schools (common targets for bombings in Lahore and other Pakistani cities)–sound dirtier than the typical CIA fare. …

Onward….

… as it dribbles out that at least two of the American Xtian bible dispensers died AFTER US forces boarded the yacht.

And What about the werkin man?
They really need to get a Union in there, sort out the work rules, etc. No day-time murders over the lunch hour etc. No moonlighting off base without taking your pager and bogus papers.

Oh and they really need to get a better hat rack for the locker room: that jockitch vector between the DI and CIA, SOCOM and Eric Princes Amway Franchise: Xe aka Blackwater.

To protect the civilians in a country that is still home to insurgents with Al Qaeda and Iranian-backed militias, the State Department is planning to more than double its private security guards, up to as many as 7,000, according to administration officials who disclosed new details of the plan. Defending five fortified compounds across the country, the security contractors would operate radars to warn of enemy rocket attacks, search for roadside bombs, fly reconnaissance drones and even staff quick reaction forces to aid civilians in distress, the officials said.

Yeh some Big Change – O.
He’s a War Criminal.
And his supporters are despicable.
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All 4 U.S. Good-Lifers were killed on that prirated yacht off Oman..
At least we are spared the chest-pounding presser from Obby and Company when they shot and killed those young kids trying to surrender another boat last year.

So.

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from Howl

I'm with you in Rockland
where we wake up electrified out of the coma
by our own souls' airplanes roaring over the
roof they've come to drop angelic bombs the
hospital illuminates itself imaginary walls collapse
O skinny legions run outside O starry
spangled shock of mercy the eternal war is
here O victory forget your underwear we're free
I'm with you in Rockland
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-
journey on the highway across America in tears
to the door of my cottage in the Western night

October 7 1955

"a remarkable collection of angelson one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure

Democrats…

Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.